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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1999  > April  >
Chemical Education Today
NSF Highlights
The Rensselaer Studio General Chemistry Course
Thomas Apple and Alan Cutler
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemistry, Cogswell Lab, Troy, NY 12124
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April 1999
Vol. 76 No. 4
p. 462
Abstract
We implemented a studio General Chemistry program as part of a school mandate to replace large lectures in all first-year courses by small studio classes (maximum of 60 students) that integrate the class, recitation, and laboratory experience. Hallmarks of this approach include focusing on the student as a problem solver and facilitating cooperative learning via group interactions. Approximately 900 students take two semesters of General Chemistry: 750 engineering students take a Chemistry of Materials course that adopted this approach in 1996 and the remaining 150 students take General Chemistry for science majors. Five instructors have been involved with the latter course during the last two years. Starting in 1996, these courses meet in two general chemistry suites that we designed to accommodate 60 students each in a studio classroom setting. Each suite is fully equipped for computer-assisted instruction in both the classroom and the adjoining laboratories.
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 Apple, Thomas; Cutler, Alan. J. Chem. Educ. 1999 76 462.
*  Keywords
 General Chemistry
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Last Updated:		 June 14, 1999
June 22, 2005
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